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...John Jacob Raskob was a Union Leaguer before he quit his party to head the Democratic National Committee...
...after his return, the Rev. Shedden resigned as Bishop. The yacht disaster, he said, merely clinched an earlier determination to quit because, as he had told his good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury the diocese needed a change some time and he had done as much good as possible. Next week he will sail for England where, observers guessed, he will be rewarded with a diocese...
Young Sinners (Fox). Thomas Meighan quit the film business in 1929, spent a year travelling around the world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with...
Dean Williams was 15 when he quit school to take a job as printer's devil on the Boonville (Mo.) Topic at 70 cents a week. In 1908 he persuaded the University to let him set up an experimental school. He has been its dean ever since, "the university president who never went to college...
...really funny in a magazine because the advertisers won't let you. Look what happened to us on Judge when we tried those 'burlesque numbers': the circulation went up by 50 to 60 thousand, but the advertisers made it so hot for us, we had to quit. They couldn't stand being kidded. No?the only magazine that can be funny is one without advertisers...